Bag closure and support



Dec. 16, 1930. I v F. L. SAVAGEAU 1,735,498

BAG CLOSURE AND SUPPORT Filed Dec. 24, 1928 INVENTOR. FTc-I. 5. Mg, W

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Patente Dec. 16, 1930 FRED L. SAVAGEAUIOF DENVER, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO INDEPENDENCE COFFEE AND srr GE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF COLORADO I BAG- eLosrmE AND SUIPOItT Applieation filed December 24, 1928. Serial No. 328,281.

My invention relates to bags, envelopes, or pouches, adapted to contain salted peanuts, pop corn products, gelatine compounds of various sorts, powder, tea, cofiee, sugar, chocolate,. or other merchandise.

The object of my invention is to provide such areceptacle with a closure which includes means permitting the receptacle to be hung in an attractive way upon a display card or other proper support.

A further object is to provide the open ends of such receptacles with a simple, cheap and reliable closure that is substantially air tight.

A further object is to provide such a receptacle with a closure that will permit merchandise to be sent in such receptacles through the mail.

7 In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of a bag provided with my closure and support construction.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1, showing the appearance of the bag when containing merchandise, though the merchandise itself is not shown.

Figure 3 is a view showing a portion of a display card or stand adapted to support and display bags of merchandise, and also showing how a bag provided with my closure and support is mounted thereon.

Figure 4 is a view looking at the edge of the display card shown in Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a view of a bag provided with my closure and support as it would appear when hanging on a string or wire.

The bag, envelope, or pouch 1, made of paper, parafiin paper, or of any other suitable material, is closed at the end 2 1n the usual manner or by any proper means.

The bag 1 is filled with the merchandise selected, and its open end is then folded, as

at the flap 3, tightly about the sealing edge 4 of the keeper 4. The keeper 4 is made of card board or of any other proper material having a degree of stifiness, and if a substantially air tight closure is desired the sealing edge 4 should be extended for at least the full width of the ba The flap 3 is fiien secured in this position,

tightly folded about the edge 4 of the keeper 4, by a staple 5, or by rivets of any proper type or form, or even by sewing,;or; by the wellknown glue or gum or heated paraffin methods.

In anycase the result is the same in that thetight foldin of the flap 3 about'the edge 4' is maintaine b a proper fastening, and a substantially air tight closure thereby provided.

Where an air tight closure is not required for the proper retention and preservation of the merchandise, less care may be used in the .length of the sealing edge 4 and in the fit of the flap 3 against the sealing edge 4:; and in some cases it may be found that the keeper ma be attached to the flap 3 only.

ut, when this closure is properly constructed and proper material is used, it is possible to provide a receptacle in which merchandise will remain fresh for practically as long a period as if the receptacle were actually gum sealed and air tight. I

This allows merchandise to be sold in bags from display cards or other proper supports and insures their contents being fresh when the bags are opened.

The pointed end or hook 6 of the keeper 4 is used to insert in a slot in a display card such as shown at 8, and may be varied from the pointed shape shown as desired provided it still may be used to support the bag.

The slot employed may be either straight,

as shown at 7 or of difierent shapes as shown at 9, 10 and 11, or of any other form or shape so long as a proper support for the hook 6 is provided. i

For, in any case, the result is the same in that the slot in the display card 8 permits the receptacle to be hung thereon by the hook 6 of the keeper 4, as would be the case'evend with the upper edge of the display card 8.

If desired, the keeper 4 with its hook 6 may be employed to hang the receptacle upon wire, ribbon, string, or small tree branches, this being especially convenient in trimming Christmas trees and wreaths and the like, one illustration of which is shown in Figure 5.

It now be seen that my invention furnishes a simple, cheap and reliable .closure which may be made substantially air tight; that it provides means by which the receptacle may be hung upon display cards or other proper supports; and that it provides a tightly closed receptacle in which merchandise may be sent through the mails.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is as follows 1. A bag for merchandise having one open end, a keeper having a supporting end and opposite thereto a sealing edge extending the full width of the bag and about which both sides of the said open end of the bag are adapted to be tightly folded forming a double thickness flap on the side of the keeper opposite the bag and extending along the keeper for a portion only of its length, and means passing through the bag and the flap and through the keeper spaced from the extremity of its supporting end and adapted to maintain their respective relations.

2. A bag having one end open, a keeper having a supporting end and opposite thereto a sealing edge about which the said open end of the bag is adapted to be folded to form a flap on the side of the keeper opposite the bag, and means passing through the bag, the keeper and the flap and spaced from the extremity of the supporting end of the keeper and adapted to maintain their relative relations.'

3. A bag for merchandise having one open end, a keeper having a support end and opposite thereto a sealing edge extending the full width of the bag, and about which the said open end of the bag is adapted to be tightly-folded forming a flap on the'side of the keeper opposite the bag, and means spaced from the support end of the keeper attaching the keeper to the flap.

4. A bag having one end open, a keeper one end of which is adapted to act as a supa port for the bag and the other end having a sealing edge about which both sides of the said open end of the bag are: adapted to be folded to form a flap on the side of the keeper opposite the bag, and means attaching the bag and the flap to the keeper and spaced from the support end thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FRED L. SAVAGEAU. 

